Dr Desa
Markovic
Programme Director, Psychotherapy and Counselling
programmes
Contact at markovicd@regents.ac.uk
Department
School of Psychotherapy & Counselling
Psychology
Faculty
HASS (Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences)
Professional affiliation(s)
- UKCP Reg
- BASRT Accred
- Association of Family Therapy, Member
- University of London, External Examiner
Qualifications
- DPsych
- MSc
- PGDPST
- BA(Hons)
Biography
Desa is a UKCP registered psychotherapist and supervisor and
BASRT accredited psychosexual therapist with extensive experience
of working as a member of multidisciplinary teams in a broad range
of mental health contexts and with twenty years of experience of
teaching psychotherapy courses at PGDip and MSc levels; she has
held various senior management and leadership positions in training
institutes, including Assistant Director at Institute of Family
therapy, Senior Practice Consultant at Relate and Senior tutor at
Kensington Consultation Centre.
Course Development
CSCT 1996-98 Senior Tutor developed Clinical
Supervision Course
KCC 1992 – 2000 Senior Tutor and Supervisor developed various
courses
In Family therapy up to Doctorate level
IFT (Institute of Family Therapy) 2000-2004 developed and chaired
Management course MSc
PhD and Doctoral Research Supervision and
examining
Currently supervising a thesis on Professional Doctorate in
Counselling Psychology
Research Interests
Psychosexual therapy; Case Studies in Couple and Family therapy;
Qualitative research methods, in particular Discourse Analysis,
Narrative Analysis and Case Study
List of Publications
- Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder: Can it be Treated by Drugs?
Sexual and Relationship Therapy. Vol. 25 Issue 3. Taylor &
Francis. 2010
- A Case of Enhancing Sexual Confidence: Both the Client and the
Therapist are the Experts. Australian and New Zealand Journal of
Family Therapy. 2010
- Systemic Therapists' Experience of Powerlessness. (with
J.Hildebrand) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy.
Special edition: Research 2007
- Working with Sexual Issues in Systemic Therapy. Australian and
New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy. 2007
Teaching:
- MA in Sexual and Relationship Therapy Porterbrook Clinic
Sheffield; whole day teaching on Systemic psychotherapy Module on
25th November and 9th December 2010
- Relate one day workshop ‘Working systemically with sexual
issues’ on 14th September 2010
- ‘Taking the best out of two worlds; a view on integration
between systemic and psychosexual therapy’ presentation at Society
for Existential Analysis Conference 2010
Papers given (last 5 years)
- ‘An Intervention in Collaborative Psychosexual Therapy’,
presentation at World Conference of Sexual Health, Glasgow
2011
- ‘A Model of Integration of Systemic and Sexual Therapy’,
presentation at North American Society for Psychotherapy Reearch,
Canada 2011
- ‘Challenging Dominant Discourses in Sexuality’, keynote speak
at Joint Conference Relate and Institute of Family Therapy
2010
- ‘Systemic Sex Therapy with Female Sexual Disorder: A Different
Model’. World Association of Sexual Health, Goteborg
2009
- ‘Disorders of Desire: Can they be Treated by Drugs’ European
Congress of Sexual Medicine. Lisbon 2007
- ‘Some ethical dilemmas of a psychotherapist’: International
Psychotherapy Congress Belgrade 2006
- ‘The Self of a Sexology Professional’ World Association of
Sexology Montreal 2005
- ‘Teenagers’ Sexuality’ BASRT Annual Conference London
2005
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